Royal opening
The University Daily
Kansas City tops Toronto 2-1 as the 1985 season begins. See story on page 13.
KANSAN
Cloudy, warm High, 63. Low, 42. Details on page 3.
Vol. 95, No. 127 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
Tuesdav. April 9.1985
University budget approved in House
By MICHAEL TOTTY Staff Reporter
TOPEKA - The Kansas House yesterday approved a fiscal year 1986 budget for the seven Board of Regents schools that further reduces the increases requested by the Regents and Gov. John Carlin.
The House approved by a 101-21 vote the budget recommended by its Ways and Means Committee last week. The committee had approved the bill last year and approved last month by the Kansas Senate.
The $645 million appropriations bill will be returned to the Senate, which is expected to reject the cuts made in the schools' proposed budgets by the House Committee. The Senate then would ask for a conference committee made up of members of both chambers to reach a compromise on the budget.
HOUSE MEMBERS who opposed the reduced Regents budget decided to wait for the conference committee and not fight to restore some of the lost money on the House
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said opposition to the Senate's budget by the Republican majority in the House made it result to fight on the floor to restore the budget.
"We have hopes that some of that will be restored in committee." Branson said. "We decided that it would be risky to try to get it amended on the floor.
"This kind of vote comes down on a partisan basis. If they get defeated on the
Housing su to move in
Staff Reporter
By MICHELLE T. JOHNSON Staff Reporter
A new director of housing has been picked to succeed J.J. Wilson, who is retiring this year after 30 years in the position.
Kenneth L. Stoner, associate director of residence halls at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, has been chosen to be the office of student affairs populated yesterday.
A search committee composed of faculty representatives, housing office personnel and presidents of student housing organizations read applications and interviewed applicants for the position. The search began in December.
Stoner was one of four finalists, all of whom visited the University in the past two months
Fish tales on banks o
A whale of a tale lurks in the Kaw River across from the old Bowersock Mill.
By MICHELLE WORRALL Staff Reporter
For years, fishermen have traded stories about monster-sized catfish that live in shallow waters.
"Years and years ago I caught an 80-pound cat," said Ernest Higgins, a Lawrence resident who grew up along the Mississippi River. "You have to light 'em, 'til they give up."
in warm weather, fishermen gather by the dam across from Bowersock Mills and Power Co. Sixth and New York streets, in the neighborhood of the trophy and perhaps a few minutes of fame.
Sounds kind of fish, doesn't it? But this
nunn't another tale about the big one that
can't be found.
Snapshots of grinning fishermen proudly posing with their feety catchs are locked on a wall of Higgins Bait Shop. Second floor, built east from Lawrence Riverfront Park.
LAST YEAR, THE biggest fish dragged into the bait shop weighed 61 pounds, said Judy Higgins, the shop's owner.
LAWRENCE'S GIANT catfish could mean big bucks for Mrs. Paul. For example, one 85-pound catfish would be larger than a 180-crunch, lightly battered fishbats.
The lure of landing a big one drew lawrence residents Jim Russell and Neil Gustave Fitzgerald.
Biggers, however, took a more relaxed approach to fishing. He lounged on a rock
WITH PIN-POINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion His line, laden with skinks and worms, gracefully dripped over the air and plunged into the deaths of the river.
floor, it's harder to get them reinstated in the conference committee."
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said some of the reductions were made to give the House a position to bargain with the Senate in the conference committee.
"I TWOWARD HAVE been a tactical error to make those changes on the floor," Solbach said. "We expect some of the cuts to be restored in the conference committee."
For KU, the House approved about $80,000
from the general fund, almost $4 million
Byrne in costume for 'Stop Making Sense': Singular tastes
Making Sense By Not Making Sense
The less we say about it the better Make it up as we go along.
Forgiving the brunch menu, David Byrne has ordered coffee, a Bloody Mary, a plate of cooked spinach and slices of Muenster cheese. After alternately sipping on the two drinks, he has a brainstorm once the food arrives. Draping the cheese over the steaming greens and then drizzling lemon juice over all, he creates a dish that looks like Martian baked Alaska but, according to Byrne, "tastes pretty good." In his cuisine, as in his music, David Byrne has singular tastes.
It's always been that way. As the lead singer and chief writer for Talking Heads, David Byrne has made music that sometimes sounds like primal therapy you could dance to. Over seven albums with the band he helped form in 1975, he's probed the inner thoughts of a psychotic killer as well as the everyday angst of modern life. Apart from Talking Heads, Byrne has exercised his artistic talents through a variety of other projects. He's produced a record for the B-52's, written music for a Twila Tarp ballet and conceived the Brechtian style of the Talking Heads film, "Stop Making Sense," the surprisingly popular concert movie that continues to tour the country. For Byrne, 32, the creative possibilities seem to be limited only by his imagination. "It's a lot of fun," he says.
in his quiet, clipped way of speaking. "The best thing is that I can use anything for inspiration. If I have a nifty idea in whatever area, I can put it to use."
In the future there will be so much going on that no one will be able to keep track of it.
The latest evidence of Byrne's unvelding creative drive is an album just released on ECM Records. Called "Music From the Knee Plays," it consists of narration and music for brass and percussion instruments, written by Byrne for a play cycle by avant-garde dramatist Robert Wilson. This was Byrne's first nonrock music and his simple, jazz-inspired melodies form a gentle and fluid counterpoint to the disquieting narration of 7 of the 12 pieces.
After completing "Knee Plays" last spring, Byrne spent most of the rest of 1984 writing songs and an accompanying screenplay for a film set in a suburb in Texas. Byrne then recited the film but did not sing as if she was a performer default," he laughs, "because no one else would do my material."
And you may ask yourself—Well . . . how did I get here?
Byrne can give the impression that he is both reflective and nominality. He can give studied attention to the simplest of questions and then answer with high uncertainty. Press him about why he continues to perform if he doesn't like it, and this is his response: "I guess I like it. I guess I like it. I guess I do. Sometimes I stop and ask myself, so I guess I must. It must be all right."
Making music with Talking Heads (guitarist and keyboardist Jerry Harrison, bassist Wina Teymouth and drummer Chris Frantz) continues to please, although, he admits, "It's almost as if the band has become this base that I can work out from." A new Talking Heads album now being promised to be a return to the group's earlier, pared-down sound. "Musically, I think it's more conventional," says Byrne, "the kind of thing that you sing in a shower with words coming off the tongue. I think of them as contemporary folk songs, except for a couple that are pretty weird." It's a natural combination for David Byrne.
RON GIVENS
28
Takuo Heade: Primal therapy with a beat you can dance to
"Anything that wiggles and moves, they'll eat," he said.
NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS/APRIL 1984
The catfish congregate by the dam, said Ernest Higgins, Lawrence resident, because it is their nature to swim upstream and the dam blocks their path.
"I only keep 'em when they weigh more than two pounds," he said.
"People just don't catch 'em, so they grow," he said.
But many years ago, fishermen dove into the water with large hooks lashed to their wrists to try to snare the big catfish, also known flatheads, he said.
"Everyone assumed that he went under the dam. Judi Huggins said, "But they were wrong."
"I didn't do it," Higgins said. "I didn't want to tangle with no fish in the water. They have rough teeth like a man's wiskers. They can tear a man's hide off."
Harvey Hasler, manager of Lunker Bait and Tackle, 651 E. 23rd St., said the catfish were large because they were old and could find plenty of food in the Kaw to eat, such as small fish, frogs, crawdads and snakes.
According to an old fisherman's tale, a man dove into the water and never came back.
And when these fish bite, they really bite.
"Yeah, you know when you have a big one on your line," Russell said.
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
Jim Russell. Lawrence resident, bails his hook in love of catching something to the frying pan. He was fishing Easter day on the Kaw River dam across from the Bowersock Mills and Power Co., Sixth and New York streets. Russell built a tent for a lot of nibbles and a five-inch channel catfish, which he tossed back.
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
ers spent 15 hours this weekend shmen Melinda LaRue and Heidi took about two hours last night to
pered
but none of them unlocked the door. he, said he, tried his own key in it. It worked and the mission began, y night the four men walked to all the Daisy Hill and asked for newspapers. he re told that the papers were saved to o the Boy's Club paper drive, started crumpling papers they had
started crumpling papers they had at 7 p.m. Saturday night and quit at it.
kind of had a system." Duffy said. person would be unfolding the paper others would be crumpling them up ing them in."
said they hit a dry spell where they find enough papers. The only thing as to go to the source. Duffy and called the Boy's Club but no one d. They drove to the paper drop at St. and filled their trunk with pens.
time they gathered a load of papers,
sight that they had enough to finish
je room. The project was completed
trips to the paper drop Smart said
to the women to return the
ers to the paper drop after they
the room.
our began working again at 5 p.m and finished at 3 a.m.
viets call S. count gross lie'
OW — The Soviet Union accused the administration yesterday of “a gross missile count and of pursuing a policy” by dismissing Mikhail Gorbachev's call for an on deployment missiles in Europe, seems that the U.S. administration
d Press International
meems that the U.S. administration are the
wishes neither the arms reduction nor the remunciation of the arms buildup" sought in a bill that issued Tass news agencyaga. The talks informed their fifth week in Geneva yesterday.
Gorbachev announced Sunday that he had accepted President Reagan's call for a summit and would unilaterally halt defense spending. S-20 missiles targeted on Western Europe.
Gorbachev said the moratorium would last until November and he urged the United States to stop simultaneous deployment of ships 2 and cruise missiles in western Europe.
BUT THE WHITE House quickly dismissed the move as "not enough," citing a 10-1 Soviet superiority in medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe.
The deployment of 572 medium-range U.S. missiles in five international nations began in late 1983 as part of a 1979 NATO plan to counter the SS-20s. The United States said the Soviets had 414 SS-20s operational, two-thirds of them aimed at western Europe.
Tass said yesterday that U.S. officials used "stale arguments" of Soviet missile superiority to reject Gorbachev's proposal and accused them of ignoring the need for nuclear weapons. Tass also said U.S. officials failed to include British and French forces in their missile count.
See SOVIET, p. 5, col. 1
1
1